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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ľudьje

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ljaudijes, nominative plural of *ljaudis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰis.

Noun

*ľȗdьje m pl [1][2]

  1. people

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Declension of *ľȗdьjē, *ľȗďē (i-stem, accent paradigm c, plural only)
Plural
Nominative *ľȗdьjē, *ľȗďē*
Accusative *ľȗdi
Genitive *ľudь̀jь
Locative *ľȗdьxъ
Dative *ľȗdьmъ
Instrumental *ľudьmì
Vocative *ľȗdьjē, *ľȗďē*
* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants
  • Church Slavonic: людьѥ (ljudĭje)
  • East Slavic:
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: людиѥ (ljudije)
      Glagolitic: ⰾⱓⰴⰻⰵ (ljudie)
    • Bulgarian: лю́де (ljúde), лю́ди (ljúdi)
    • Macedonian: луѓе (luǵe)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: љу̑ди
      Latin: ljȗdi
      • Chakavian (Vrgada, Orbanići): ļȗdi
    • Slovene: ljudjẹ̑ (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: ľudie
    • Polabian: ľaudai, ľaudi
    • Old Polish: ludzie
    • Slovak: ľudia
    • Slovincian: lȧ̃ʒä
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: ludźo
      • Lower Sorbian: luźe

Further reading

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ļȗdьje”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 282: “Npl. m. (c) ‘people’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “ljudьje”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c folk (PR 138)”
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